March, 2019

A bipartisan trio of prominent senators including the chair and vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee have introduced legislation, the Secure 5G and Beyond Act, that would both protect 5G networks and prevent the government from trying to nationalize 5G nets, or 6G or 7G for that matter.

The lawsuit was filed in Chicago federal court by the family of Jackson Musoni, a citizen of Rwanda, and alleges that Boeing, which manufactures the 737 MAX, had defectively designed the automated flight control system.

Boeing said it could not comment on the lawsuit.

The long awaited Saudi Aramco acquisition of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) is finally here.

Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of CNN, USA Today, Judicial Watch, and other outlets, telling the DOJ that it must hand over the Comey memos to the court for review and possible public release.

The memos include the notes that Comey said he leaked to the media to spark the appointment of a special counsel.

After reading, the students were given two multiple-choice questions. The first asked "Which of the following conclusions would the author most likely agree with?" One response was, “Donald Trump should not be president." The second question asked students to complete the statement, "The reader can infer that ..." One of the choices listed was, “Mexican Americans are the major group upset with President Trump.”
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In a statement, the Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District said the teacher did not use "good judgment" and that the matter had been settled, according to the paper. It did not specify if any disciplinary action was taken.

On Monday, Rio Grande City agents encountered a group of 110 illegal aliens. A few hours later, Rio Grande City agents encountered a large group of 98 illegal aliens. This morning, Rio Grande City agents encountered 190 illegal aliens.

On Tuesday, the Rio Grande Valley Sector apprehended nearly 1,700 illegal aliens, making it the highest one-day total since 2014.

On Tuesday, McAllen agents encountered a group of 158 illegal aliens. An hour later, McAllen agents encountered a group of 105 illegal aliens. That same day, agents encountered a third group of over 100 illegal aliens (agents took 123 people in to custody).

The illegal aliens were comprised of family units and unaccompanied children from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Sri Lanka.

The FBI calls it the Chinese Embassy Scam, and it comes in as a call in Chinese claiming to be from the Chinese consulate or embassy. Other versions of the scam come from a shipping company about a package waiting for them at the embassy.

The phone numbers look legitimate, so in yet another variation of the scam when the caller says a package was found with their passport, social security card, or credit card, it's more believable. Victims are then passed onto an "investigator" from Chinese law enforcement who requests funds to resolve the problem. If they won't wire over money, they're threatened with jail or deportation. Some even ask for cryptocurrency or credit card info.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned on Thursday that China’s island-building in the South China Sea and its sprawling international transport and trade initiative are both part of a broad national defence strategy, stepping up his rhetoric after Italy endorsed Beijing’s infrastructure plan.

The infrastructure that Beijing is building in the South China Sea “is not because they want freedom of navigation”, Pompeo said during a discussion in Washington with National Review editor Rich Lowry. “Their efforts to build ports around the world are not because they want to be good shipbuilders and stewards of the waterways, but rather they have a state national security element to each and every one of them.

The dolphins’ bodies were horribly mutilated, the fins cut off. But what shocked French marine researchers wasn’t just the brutality of the deaths of these highly intelligent mammals, but the numbers involved — a record 1,100 have landed on France’s Atlantic coast beaches since January.

The mass deaths, widely blamed on industrial fishing, have alarmed animal welfare groups and prompted France’s ecology minister to launch a national plan to protect them.

The doctor instructed the mother to take the toddler to the emergency room as soon as possible, but since the child's fever later broke, she took him back to their home in Chandler, about 25 miles southeast of Phoenix, instead, according to a statement from the Chandler Police Department.

When the doctor learned from the Cardon Children's Hospital that they parents never showed up with the child, she called Arizona DCS, who then contacted the Chandler Police Department for assistance, an incident report shows.

The surveillance giant shut down its flawed dragnet last year. Four legislators are trying to stop one of the security state’s most infamous post-9/11 programs from returning.
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The new Ending Mass Collection of Americans’ Phone Records Act would remove any authority for the NSA and FBI to domestically collect phone records “other than those identified by the specific selection term included in [a warrant] application.” Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Reps. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), four of Congress’ leading surveillance skeptics, unveiled the bill on Thursday.

“It’s time, finally, to put a stake in the heart of this unnecessary government surveillance program and start to restore some of Americans’ liberties,” Wyden said in a statement.

Following in the footsteps of her mother, Lauren Salzman has decided to plead guilty rather than go to trial in the case of the U.S. v. Raniere Et Al.to one count each of Racketeering and Racketeering Conspiracy.

Lauren’s plea was done “under seal” in order to keep the details from becoming known by other defendants in the case, some of whom are also engaged in plea deal negotiations. But the Scheduling Order for her sentencing – which will take place on September 11th – was just posted on PACER.

Kelsey Turner was taken into custody March 21 in Stockton in connection with the death of Dr. Thomas Burchard, of Salinas, Calif., Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said.
Turner was arrested by Las Vegas detectives and the Stockton FBI task force, FOX5 Las Vegas reported. Further details on her arrest or how police identified Turner as a suspect in Burchard’s death weren’t immediately available.

Muslim Fulani tribesmen killed more than 120 Christians in coordinated attacks throughout northern Nigeria over a matter of weeks, partly in response to Kaduna Gov. Nasir El-Rufai’s false claim that members of the Christian Adara people murdered over 100 Fulani ahead of Nigeria’s presidential election.
The ISIS-affiliated terrorist group Boko Haram has also waged attacks on Christian villages in recent weeks, continuing the jihadist campaign it began in 2009.
Christian leaders and advocacy groups pleaded for President Donald Trump to help bring an end to the violence against Christians by appointing a U.S. special envoy to Nigeria.

A critical vulnerability in the Magento e-commerce platform is putting as many as 300,000 commerce sites at risk of card-skimming infections until they install a recently released patch.
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Over the past six months, a raft of competing crime gangs has been racing to infect commerce sites with JavaScript that surreptitiously steals purchasers’ credit card data. The compromises are the result of exploits against either known or zeroday vulnerabilities. A vulnerability of this severity in an e-commerce platform that boasts 300,000 businesses and merchants is almost certainly going to face in-the-wild attacks by the same card-skimmer gangs.

Trudeau, once heralded as a political rock star, now has a 40 percent approval rating, according to a new Ipsos poll conducted for Global News and published Thursday. That’s below Trump’s current level of 43 percent in the U.S.. The Official Opposition Conservatives have also gained traction over the governing Liberals, leading by 10 percent.

...economic growth for the past 10 years after the 2008 financial crisis – which was a made in the West phenomenon – do tell an enlightening story.

China’s growth: 139%. India’s growth: 96%. the US’ growth: 34%. EU growth: a negative 2%.
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The New Silk Roads being re-connected to Italy after half a millennium will accelerate Euro-Asia integration, and even, in the long run, more influence for both the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

EU businesses, if not political Eurocrats, are starting to realize that Europe cannot afford to become a... hostage of Washington tearing up international law... It’s no wonder that slowly but surely, the EU is shifting its priorities to the East – including to its “systemic rival.”

ould the next great Chinese advanced missile threat come disguised as an innocuous looking shipping transport vessel? A new report in The Washington Free Beacon suggests so, as it details China's new long-range cruise missile which can be launched directly from a shipping container device, which is meant to conceal detection of the threat right up until the moment of launch.

Alarmingly, it's already being flight tested, according to analysts cited in the report, which further finds the technology "could turn Beijing's large fleet of freighters into potential warships and commercial ports into future missile bases." If cruise missiles can be hidden in international shipping containers, China could be a major threat to western targets simply as it moves millions of tons of goods every year.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove.